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The Law of Attraction and Its Application to Spiritual Sadhana · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is interesting that people are willing to believe the
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  secret of the Law of Attraction, spend time, energy and money
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  trying to learn it for the purpose of manifesting wealth,
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  enjoyment and the powers available in the world.
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  But they do not tend to apply the principle behind this Law of
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  attraction to the focus and actions that take place in their
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  inner lives. This, of course, is the real
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  truth behind the Law of Attraction.
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  Not that one can attract money, sexual partners, material
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  things, but that what we focus on, what we think, how we focus
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  our energy internally guides the being to the energetic
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  vibrations that resonate with that inner focus.
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  Once an individual takes the standpoint of the witness of the
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  nature, he can begin to refocus attention away from the external
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  pursuits and enjoyments to the process and objectives of the
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  spiritual practice. This may be liberation from an
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  abandonment of the external nature, or it may be a linking
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  of the consciousness to the divine consciousness and thereby
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  integrating spirit and matter into one holistic existence.
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  Even before he is able to shift entirely to the witness
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  standpoint, a strong aspiration or inner drive towards spiritual
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  realization can help the process of reorienting the energy,
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  although particularly initially the individual has issues with
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  forgetting. As outer energies press for
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  attention and the normal habits and drives of the external
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  nature continue to hold the predominant focus for the being
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  in this transitional period, there's an alternation, a
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  continual process of bringing back the concentration to the
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  spiritual practice. No matter how many times one
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  simply forgets or goes about under the impulsion of the
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  habitual nature, the main thing is to tune oneself, to the
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  extent possible, to the higher vibration. 1 is seeking to
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  realize in the nature rather than emphasizing and focusing on
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  obstacles, difficulties, and failures.
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  Over time, as the individual grows and matures at this new
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  level of vibration, the obstacles fall away of
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  themselves or at least become much lessened in their intensity
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  and thus easier to disregard. This approach of refocusing can
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  also be used for very specific types of changes in human
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  nature. For instance, if one is
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  experiencing a pull of desire from the vital being, one can
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  consciously undertake to redirect the awareness and focus
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  toward the spiritual realization.
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  To accomplish this, initially, many people rely on specific
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  techniques such as meditation, concentration, contemplation,
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  pranayam, the use of mantras, asanas, including the use of
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  mudras, bandas, and specific alignments of the body to shift
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  energy and focus away from whatever the outer nature was
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  seeking aspiration, prayer, budgens or devotional music,
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  devotional feelings, Karma yoga. A feeling of service and
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  surrender. A widening of the attention
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  toward the infinite or a call to the guru or the divine presence
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  in some form. Entering into a state of unity
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  with a particular divine form, whether through a Morty or
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  through inner practices including things like
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  visualization etcetera. There are countless techniques
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  that can be applied under 1 circumstance or another
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  depending on the specific circumstance that the seeker is
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  working on changing, Shrioro Bindo writes.
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  Quote. Difficulties and perplexities
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  can never be got rid of by the mind brooding on them and trying
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  in that way to get out of them. This habit of the mind only
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  makes them recur without a solution, and keeps up by
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  brooding the persistent tangle. It is from something above and
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  outside the perplexities that the solution must come.
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  The difficulty of the physical mind, not the true thinking
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  intelligence, is that it does not want to believe in this
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  larger consciousness outside itself, because it is not aware
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  of it, and it remains shut like a box in itself, not admitting
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  the light that is all round it and pressing to get in.
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  It is a subtle law of the action of consciousness that if you
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  stress difficulties, you have to observe them, of course, but not
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  stress them. They will quite sufficiently do
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  that for themselves. The difficulties tend to stick
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  or even increase. On the contrary, if you put your
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  whole stress on faith and aspiration and concentrate
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  steadily on what you aspire to, that will sooner or later tend
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  towards realization. It is this change of stress, a
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  change in the poise and attitude of the mind that will be the
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  most helpful process. End Quote reference.
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  Sri Auro Bindu and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 4,
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  Ordeals and Difficulties, pages 101 to 102.